Our son Paul, wife Ying, and grandson Connor
arrived in Austin from Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, June 17th. Paul is working on
getting a teaching certificate for his position as a science teacher at an
international school near Taipei. They are traveling with us for six weeks in
our motorhome as Paul takes four exams, one each in Omaha, Bismarck, Portland
and Seattle. On Monday we enjoyed lunch at Flores Mexican
Restaurant in Lake Travis.
We drove to San Antonio on Tuesday to visit Grammy. She enjoyed meeting her great grandchild. On the way back to
Austin, we stopped at one of our favorite Texas stops…Buc-ee’s, which has great
gas prices and snacks to go.
We enjoyed dinner at County Line BBQ. Paul
& Ying ordered the beef ribs which are Texas-sized huge.
We met Paul’s cousin Jonathon for dinner on
Wednesday at the original Chuy’s Mexican Restaurant, on Barton Springs Road in
Austin. It was just as good as the week before when Julie and I stopped there.
After dinner we all went to nearby Austin’s best city park, Zilker Park, to let
Conner run off some energy.
We left Austin on Thursday and headed north
up tornado alley, across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. We landed safely
in Omaha at Offutt AFB Family Campground for a three-night stay. We enjoyed
dinner on Sunday at old friends Sal & Terri’s home. We hadn’t seen them in
a couple of years so it was fun to catch up.
Paul took and passed his first exam on Monday.
We celebrated by enjoying the best cheeseburgers in the Omaha area at Stella’s
Bar & Grill, where we had to wait for a table. 
On Tuesday we drove 80-miles to my old hometown of Denison, Iowa for lunch with my step-mother Jan, her granddaughter Mandy and her children. We enjoyed lunch at Pizza Ranch and our visit with everyone.
We spent three-nights in
Sioux Falls where Paul got a new driver’s license and we picked up our mail at
Dakota Post, our mail forwarding service.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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